Cracked Archive
Where Aren't They Now? 16 Overlooked Deaths from 2013
Every year we like to stop and remember those whose passing didn't make headlines, despite the fact that each changed your life in some small way.
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- By Lisa Skye, Paul Rasche
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6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie
History books are full of PG-13 violence. Here are the directors' cuts.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 40 Best Cracked Articles and Videos of 2013
2013 was a historically bad year for Congress and health care websites, but it was Cracked's best year ever.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Bizarrely Offensive Comic Book Supervillains
In the face of relentless pressure to keep coming up with new supervillains, publishers wound up greenlighting ideas that really should have screamed 'bad idea' at the doodle stage.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Chris Rio
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The 6 Most Inappropriate Song Choices in Advertising
Careful research or just choose the first thing that pops up on your intern's iPod? Either works fine.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Evan V. Symon
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5 Weird Psychological Dangers of Giving People Gifts
The whole gift-exchange scenario is a lose-lose situation. Science has spent a surprising amount of time studying it an everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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- By Daniel Nest, Alan Boyle
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5 Amazing Pieces of Good News Nobody Is Reporting
You can sit around and worry about debt ceilings and terror attacks, but take a moment to appreciate that you happen to be alive during the golden age of humanity.
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- By J. Wisniewski
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6 More Real-Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy
It's as if they were fighting a real war with the same selfless abandon with which you'd fight in a video game.
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- By Jorden Weir, Lyudmil Berberov
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The 7 Most Insane Street Legal Vehicles Ever (Part 3)
These people who looked at a perfectly good automobile and/or piece of furniture and said, 'What if I stuck six engines and a pair of wings on that son of a bitch?'
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- By Matt Machmuller, Curtis Galluzzo
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5 Ways We're Screwing With Wild Animals (For Their Own Good)
Sometimes our best intentions seem indistinguishable from taunting the poor bastards in their darkest hour.
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- By Sara Ohlms, Blair Dodge
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6 Bizarre Cameos by Infamous Killers (in Kids' Shows)
You probably assume that most family-friendly properties are going to be free of adult innuendo, advanced mathematics, and notorious murderers. You would assume wrong.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Basic Things You Won't Believe Science Can't Explain
In school you learned a few scientific concepts that prepared you for a lifetime of understanding. And we're about to take that away from you.
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- By Himanshu Sharma
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5 Movies Based on True Stories (with Depressing Epilogues)
Real people don't simply stop existing after the credits roll, but when you find out what they did next, you'll probably wish they had.
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- By Ricardo Rivera
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5 Authority Figures No One Realized Were Con Artists
Some people sit around and daydream about becoming a surgeon or a member of the special forces. Others go out and do something about it.
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- By Jamie Flexman
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6 Insanely Colored Versions of Normally Boring Animals
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- By Nick J.
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